"In this hunt, do you want to catch them all, or do you want to open the net?"

In the north at the end of July, the grass grows and the warbler flies, and it is warm. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This is already the hottest time in the north, but the wind is blowing on the Hongyuan, and at night if you don't cover the tent with a blanket, you will still be so cold that you can't sleep.

This is also a good time for all things to live, but for the two people who are speaking at this moment, this is a day when all things are gone.

One of the speakers was tall and slanted, with long eyebrows, sitting on a cirrus iron lily and squinting into the distance, while the other was a burly, bearded man, with piercing eyes and a somewhat murderous sneer at the corners of his mouth.

This is the emperor of the Northern Dynasty, Liu Quan, and the Khan of the Rong tribe, Huang Jidu.

Huang Jidu listened to Liu Quan's question, sighed softly, and pointed to the front of the horsewhip in his hand, pointing to a field with fertile grass and beautiful water under the mound in front of him.

The grass on the grassland had grown taller than a person's waist, and with the dotted little white flowers, the two of them stood on a high place and looked down, but they couldn't see half of the creatures. Only the best hunters can see the sheep and the wolves in the wind and grass.

A newborn fawn saw the dew on the tip of the grass and raised its head to suck it, but as soon as its front hooves were raised, it was warned by its mother to take it back honestly. Its big eyes seem to look at the world around it in understanding, feeling both fresh and frightened. No one had told it how many beasts were around it, but the nature that flowed in its blood made it so cautious and so dazed.

Little did it know that there was much more to it than just the beasts that threatened its fragile life.

Huang Jidu tightened his grip on the reins and asked, "How to catch them all in one go, how to open one side of the net?"

Liu Quan smiled like the most sincere businessman, and he was indeed "selling" the goods: "I brought two kinds of cannons. One is the mother and son cannons, once thrown, only ten can turn the grassland into a sea of fire, which is a net, and the other is the poisonous smoke cannon, after being thrown, the smoke and fire will go down the wind, but it will not hurt the lives of wild beasts. If you want to capture them alive, if you want to release them, this is all according to your will, this is the opening of the net. ”

Huang Jidu thought about it, and then smiled dumbly: "No wonder you have fought the civil war for so long on behalf of others, and it has not been fought until now." If you put your mind on attacking with the study of firearms, Xing Hou would have already entered the imperial capital at this moment. ”

Liu Quan said: "All the men of Rong are warriors, but not the generations. We may be able to produce a real warrior from a hundred households, and even so, it may not be comparable to the Rong Qiang wolf ride. People are fate, of course, they should be cherished. Why do you have to do things that can be done with things?"

Huang Jidu smiled and said: "Brother Liu means that the lives of your men are valuable, and the lives of our men will be low?"

Liu Quan replied, "I didn't say it. It's just that I think that my soldiers are more expensive than saltpeter gunpowder, but Jun would rather not use these, but is willing to let his men go back and forth in the fire and fight for victory with one sword and one shot. ”

Huang Ji was blocked by Liu Quan's words, but the two have been friends for a long time, although they are not friends, they are not enemies in the end, so these words can only be heard in their ears without a word, and they go to their hearts again. It was not that he had never been exposed to firearms at all, and when he took the prodigal soldiers to kill Eagle Xiang City together, he had also seen the Pingsha soldiers use fire and thunder. He was well aware of the tremendous lethality of firearms, and he was also well aware of the gap in force between a group of wolf riders without firearms and the soldiers of Daiguo who carried firearms.

But it is precisely because of this that he resisted.

Huang Ji is a person who is willing to work hard to train elite soldiers, and his hard work in the past has also been proved by victory. At that time, the prodigal soldiers he led were a group of people who were not equipped with fire and thunder, but such a group of young men with strong blood and strength still relied on iron discipline and stone tenacity to defend against one batch of raids from the Rong Wolf Cavalry, although they were not of the same race, he was still proud of himself. Therefore, when others told him that the soldiers with firearms were the most capable soldiers in the world, Huang Ji was resistant from the bottom of his heart.

Obviously, the soldiers he brought were the most capable soldiers in the world, and a group of hairy young men could be led by him to be invincible, not to mention that now he was under the most terrifying Rong Qiang wolf rider in the past!

Moreover, in the bottom of Huang Jidu's heart, firearms are weapons that cannot be trusted at all.

Firearms are different from knives and guns, and even if the latter cannot hurt the opponent, it is difficult to hurt themselves, but firearms are unstable. In the final battle to capture Yingxiang City, Huang Jidu had seen the fire and thunder explode in the Pingsha army group before he could throw his hand. Those bloody figures surprised him, and he still has lingering palpitations to this day. The place of the explosion was not far from him, and when the air wave came, he only felt a "buzz" in his ears, and his whole eyes went black, and he almost fell off the horse. He was lucky, the flying iron only passed his face, and it only left a shallow scar so far, but there was a person next to him who was caught in the eye by the iron piece, and that was also a high-ranking officer, and he was blinded by this, and ruined the rest of his life.

In Huang Jidu's view, this is a real non-war mistake. He is not a person who is afraid of death, if he dies on the battlefield, no matter how miserable the death is, he will admit it, and even he will calmly accept this kind of ending that seems to him to be an "honor", but for him, no matter how small, it is beyond his bearing.

Of course, the above two reasons are only for him, and what really makes him want to say "no" to Liu Quan directly is the attitude of the ministers of Rongxi.

The rebellion of the Rong people allowed Huang Jidu to purge a large group of former ministers, but in order to win the hearts of the people, those old people who surrendered to him were still entrusted with important tasks. The relationship between these people is intertwined and intertwined, and it is not something he can easily shake. To some extent, he can be regarded as the founder of the country, but he is not after all, so what he says will always take into account the entanglement of interests in all aspects, and what he wants to promote will always encounter obstacles from all sides.

However, even this only thing did not succeed, which made his prestige of the new Khan king unconsciously weakened a lot, so that he also had a faint anger towards Xing Hou. This anger was directly reflected in the boudoir life of the new king of Rongxi: the Rongxian people could have multiple wives, so he married the daughters or granddaughters of three old ministers as wives, and sat on an equal footing with Xing Mange, the sister of Xing Hou, regardless of whether they were high or low.

The ideas of the old people are deeply ingrained and difficult to return. In their view, the Rongjin people never need to learn anything from the weak generation in warfare, they believe in the wolf god, and the generation people are just weak rabbits - not only are they not powerful, but they are also not united.

Therefore, firearms are just a joke for the old ministers.

Liu Quan also knew this, so he was ridiculed at the banquet on the day of the mission, but he was not discouraged, and chose to continue the discussion when he was alone with Huang Ji. In his opinion, Huang Jidu is more like a generation, and he is young. When you are young, you can afford the consequences of change.

Of course, Huang Jidu didn't want to be looked down upon by Liu Quan, he looked back at the ten swarthy gun carriages beside him, sighed, and asked, "What is a 'child and mother cannon'?"

Liu Quan gestured to his entourage, and the man took out a black ball from the back of the gun carriage and handed it to Liu Quan.

At first glance, this black ball is no different from fire and thunder. Huang Jidu looked at it and remembered those bloody figures, his body couldn't help but measure back, and the expression on his face was a little unnatural.

Liu Quan noticed his reaction, couldn't help coughing twice, and laughed again: "Don't be afraid, the current shells are all modified, and they won't explode without an open flame, and there is no problem at all in holding it in your hand." ”

Huang Jidu snorted with a straight face: "This king is not afraid. ”

Liu Quan said: "That's good." This cannonball is also a sub-cannon, and the artillery carriage is a mother cannon. Before it was launched, the sub-cannon was in the belly of the mother cannon, like a child waiting to be born, hence the name. The mother cannon was padded with gunpowder, and when it was excited by the fire, the sub-cannon was fired along the chamber and fell into the enemy camp, where the gunpowder exploded again. In addition to gunpowder, each shell also contained many small pieces of iron, which were splashed and left no living within a radius of five feet. The poison smoke cannon is similar to the principle of the sub-mother cannon, except that the cannon is filled with poison powder. ”

Huang Ji listened to it and didn't reply for a long time. He looked up at the sky and didn't know what he was thinking, while Willow Springs, waiting patiently beside him.

Convincing others to accept his goods is what Liu Quan has been doing since he was a child, he has been rejected many times, and his heart has long been trained to be extremely tenacious, even if Huang Ji gave him a ruthless answer at this moment, in addition to being surprised and disappointed, he will not be more depressed.

For Liu Quan, he was bothered by another thing.

According to Xing Mange's letter to Xing Hou, it seems that Huang Jidu's feelings for her have gradually faded, and he has not been to her big tent in the past four or five months, but Huang Jidu has recently been the most favored by the new Nuren clan. Xing Hou only has Xing Mange's sister, and he single-handedly pulled it up, he can ignore other people's affairs, but his own sister's affairs must be put first. Therefore, let Liu Quan come to Hongyuan in person, in addition to strengthening the cooperation between the two countries, it is more important to hope that Liu Quan can spread the word, so that Huang Ji will not forget where his throne came from.

Liu Quan thought that with Huang Jidu's city government, he should be able to figure this out, he didn't even need to speak, he could see that Huang Jidu and Xing Mange were back together, but who knew that in the past two days, Xing Mange's personal maid came to the door again, saying that everything was as usual, and there was no improvement.

Up to now, he is a dignified emperor of the Northern Dynasty who can't open his mouth to interfere in the affairs of others' boudoirs, even for him, this is a little too embarrassing. Every time he thought of this, Liu Quan had a splitting headache.

And just when he was worried, Huang Jidu finally opened his mouth: "These cannons ...... Why didn't you give it to Sidai?"

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